[aclug-L] Re: Window Managers

["Bates, Rod" <Rod.Bates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Now my question; Is there ant reason that a window manager couldn't be
> written in Java?
> and if not why?
> 
> 
Sun's original primary design purpose for Java was for
downloadable applets embedded in web pages.  That
meant that the interpreter/environment for the language 
could be made so airtight that you could download and run 
a program from a site that you had no reason to trust, and feel 
confident that it wasn't going to somehow crack your 
machine.  (It also meant 100% portable code was 
required.)

I would think the restrictions designed to make Java safe 
for running  untrusted programs would be too onerous for 
a window manager. However, people have apparently found 
Java to be a sufficiently better designed programming language, 
compared to C/C++, that it's being considered/used
with much wider scope than originally intended.  
Java implementations may evolve toward relaxing some
of the safetly restrictions, which might make it feasible.    

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